The Underground In America · Pantera

116 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 5:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24 and 37-43 -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 92 BPM
THE UNDERGROUND IN AMERICA · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 36, 57, 58, 63, 64, 69 and 3 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 18 sections: 68 keep time, 9 are fills, 2 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-44.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART R
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesIRHS18F+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Underground In America?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is The Underground In America hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Underground In America?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 36, 57, 58, 63, 64, 69 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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